Fresh manual frugal install. Display,sound and internet working on initial boot. installed a few things,no problem.
No problem with the correct temp showing in the tray and no problem with a save folder.

I think the "calc" icon on Desktop has always opened Gnumeric, at least on all the puppies I've tried since I started using puppy. The first time I clicked it I thought it was a bit strange, but not really I guess. One of the icons probably should open Gnumeric, I suppose, and back then the icon looked like a graph and spreadsheet (and I believe still in Slacko) so it was a bit more obvious what calc did. I guess the "S icon" in Xenialpup stands for Spreadsheet, or "something" or "secret" or "surprise" ? I think S is one of the english letters with the most words so it could almost anything you want to fit I guess... if it even is an S (or maybe 5?)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 March 2015) [foldoc]:

Quote:

Calc

<tool, mathematics> An extensible, advanced desk calculator
and mathematical tool written in {Emacs Lisp} by Dave
Gillespie <daveg@synaptics.com>. Calc runs as part of {GNU
Emacs}. You can use Calc as only a simple four-function
calculator, but it also provides additional features including
choice of algebraic or {RPN} ({stack}-based) entry,
logarithms, trigonometric and financial functions, {arbitrary
precision}, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, dates, times,
infinities, sets, algebraic simplification, differentiation,
and integration.

That is what the icon looks like.
A desk calculator.
Well, I guess with some of the icon theme sets, it does.
Some icon sets use a desk calculator looking icon and some use a spreadsheet looking one.

If it is going to open Gnumeric. To me the icon should be named Gnumeric or spreadsheet and have an icon like a spreadsheet.
Here is example from different icon theme sets.

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I can live with this and have been for some time.
Just wonder why it is required in Xenialpup.

Video card Nvidia GeForce GTX 970.

Initial first boot, have to use nouveau.modeset=0 to get to visible desktop.

In testing Zestypup and Artfulpup this is not needed.
They initially boot to a working desktop. No added options needed.

Something you may want to look into.

hi bigpup,

i've no idea why this is required with xenialpup64. do you need to use the same option with xenialpup32 bit as well? if so can you try the 32bit xenialpup with artfuls kernel. just copy the vmlinux & zdrv.sfs over renaming the zdrv.sfs

For those with Broadcom hardware, here is the wl wifi driver, and here is the 1570 webcam driver for XenialPup (or kernel 4.9.58 amd64)
The wl wifi driver was compiled from the ubuntu zesty sources (Xenial sources are for k4.4 and will fail on XenialPup) and the bcwc webcam driver from this github source.

hi mavrothal,

7.0.8.5 was good apart from the rox pinboard bug when changing wallpapers. but after being away for so long and the build now requiring new .deps i thought it better to post 7.0.8.6 as a beta first. prior to that there were some really bed issues with the system freezing

i'll be updating the 32bit xenialpup this coming week and if nothing major is discovered it'll be a 32&64bit 7.0.9 release..... finally

Well, in Linux it has always been called a directory, but it seems a folder is now just as usable a name.

Just because it always was, does not make it always so, for ever more!

calc
There are other Puppy versions that use spreadsheet as the icon label.
There is a calc in the menu.
menu>Business>Ycalc
That is no spreadsheet program.

I understand using the word calc.
That is a very technical term for the software code for the type of calculation it does.
The name has a history in Linux software naming.
But it is still using a icon that is named spread for spreadsheet.

If I told anybody at work to go work it up in a calc program. I would get a blank stare.

If I told them to give me a spreadsheet on it. It would be understood!

OK I fixed it for me.

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